American Cockroach

So I have this little book called ''American Cockroach'' by Catherine Chalmers. It's an ''art'' book, and it's basically just photographs of cockroaches. Photographs of cockroaches sitting on tiny sofas watching TV. Photographs of cockroaches lined up to take turns drinking from a tiny toilet bowl. Photographs of cockroaches making passionate love on tiny beds in dirty motel rooms. And then we get to the executions. Cockroaches being burned at the stake like witches. Cockroaches being crucified on tiny crosses like Jesus. Cockroaches hanging from tiny ropes after being executed by hanging. It's a pretty cool book. It's too short, and I'm not sure how GOOD the photographs are. I don't recall thinking that any of the photographs were particularly BAD, but this is one of those sorts of projects where the concept sort of outweighs the actual images. How good are the actual pictures? I don't know. And I don't think I will ever know. Because each time I look at the pictures, I'm just completely overwhelmed by the CONCEPT and am hindered from making a completely valid assessment of the actual QUALITY of the pictures. Here's a link to some of this stuff, if anyone is interested.[url]http://www.catherinechalmers.com/cockroach.cfm[/url]Anyway, I only bring this up because I just saw a huge cockroach crawling on top of my computer monitor. And instead of smashing it, I grabbed it's ass and threw it into an empty fast food plastic cup. So now I have a live cockroach held captive, and I'm wondering what to do with it. Any ideas on what to do? I certainly don't want to rip off Catherine Chalmers' ideas. That'd be artistic plagiarism. But I want to do SOMETHING unique with this cockroach, and I'm open to suggestions. Also, bear in mind that I'll probably only have one shot of this. It is a LIVE cockroach, and cockroaches tend to do things like trying to run away. So in order to get a good shot, I very well may have to superglue its feet in place. That potentially gives me ONE chance at setting up a good shot, and then the cockroach will be useless.American Cockroach
KILL IT WITH FIREAmerican Cockroach
Go to a restaurant and let it free. Then run away. Then wait a week and check back and see if the restaurant is still open. :)
My science teacher in high school had pet cockroaches and every year she would marry them.Yes, she would get little outfits, put them on the roaches, and do a ceremony. Like real people. Only roaches.
Put it in a paper plane and throw it off a tall building?
Just chuck it out the window, if you can flip it into the cup.
[QUOTE=''mrbojangles25'']My science teacher in high school had pet cockroaches and every year she would marry them.Yes, she would get little outfits, put them on the roaches, and do a ceremony. Like real people. Only roaches.[/QUOTE]I've always wanted to get some of those Madagascar giant hissing cockroaches as pets. They're pretty badass. They get like 4 inches long, and they actually HISS at you when they get mad. Furthermore, they are easy to breed, they don't have any wings and can't fly away, and they run real slow, so it's hard for them to runb away and then you having a giant pregnant 4 inch long angry hissing cockroach loose in your bedroom that's soon goint to give birth to two dozen babies. Only problem is that in recent years I haven't seen hardly any of them for sale on reputable websites. I don't know if there's a shortage of them of if the law was changed to make sale of these things illegal within my country.
Some of those are WEIRD...
[QUOTE=''ShawDowFX'']Go to a restaurant and let it free. Then run away. Then wait a week and check back and see if the restaurant is still open. :)[/QUOTE]You clearly don't realize how dirty restaurants (even great restaurants) actually are. A cockroach in a restaurant is like a pervert at a nudie bar. They're there ALL THE TIME.